(RHSA-2018:2566) Important: rh-postgresql96-postgresql security update

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql96-postgresql (9.6.10). (BZ#1614340)

Security Fix(es):

• postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915)

• postgresql: Missing authorization and memory disclosure in INSERT … ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE statements (CVE-2018-10925)

• postgresql: Memory disclosure in JSON functions (CVE-2017-15098)

• postgresql: pg_upgrade creates file of sensitive metadata under prevailing umask (CVE-2018-1053)

• postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in pg_dump and other client applications (CVE-2018-1058)

• postgresql: INSERT … ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE fails to enforce SELECT privileges (CVE-2017-15099)

• postgresql: Too-permissive access control list on function pg_logfile_rotate() (CVE-2018-1115)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-10925, CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2018-1053, CVE-2017-15099, and CVE-2018-1115. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915; David Rowley as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15098; Tom Lane as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1053; Dean Rasheed as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15099; and Stephen Frost as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1115.